OVER 30 CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS DEMAND AN END TO AMAZON RING’S POLICE PARTNERSHIPS

OVER 30 CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS DEMAND AN END TO AMAZON RING’S POLICE PARTNERSHIPS

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Over 30 civil rights organizations, including CAIR-SFBA, have penned an open letter that calls on government officials to investigate Amazon Ring’s business practices and end the company’s numerous police partnerships. The letter explains how over 400 police forces across the U.S. have partnered with Ring to gain access to homeowners’ camera footage.

“With no oversight and accountability, Amazon’s technology creates a seamless and easily automated experience for police to request and access footage without a warrant, and then store it indefinitely,” the letter reads. “In the absence of clear civil liberties and rights-protective policies to govern the technologies and the use of their data, once collected, stored footage can be used by law enforcement to conduct facial recognition searches, target protesters exercising their First Amendment rights, teenagers for minor drug possession, or shared with other agencies like ICE or the FBI,” it says.